Spent all the day with the children in gathering corked bottles for buoys on the lake. After dinner I went up alone to do some work, but owing to the high wind, and the roughness of the lake, could do nothing. Mrs. MacDonnell went to Cork with Mr. Mac to-day, as her teeth were paining her. So we all were left alone. After tea I gave Miss Hickie (the governess) and the children a magic-lantern show, and they were delighted. When they were in bed, Mickie, the carpenter, Miss Hickie and I sat round the fire in the kitchen waiting for Mr. and Mrs. MacDonnell to come home, and played the violin, and sang and told stories. Mickie told us how Johnnie Condon the miller was cleaning the maize-pipe one morning as it was clogged when a rat caught on his finger and would not leave go until it was choked by another miller. Mr. Mac returned about 11.30, and told us Mrs. Mac was staying in Cork. Mr. Scher had taken out her teeth splendidly. Did conjuring tricks, and went to bed 12.00
